CDO Mail / Outlook Template

[CReds]

OK, I am little down right now.
We have spent the better part of six months getting our website programmed
and tested. We finally went live last week.

This week, we get a e-mail from another department stating we must submit
reports via a Outlook Template. This is a good thing overall. The website
I have, pretty much asks the same questions as they want, but they want us
to use the template. Can I incorporate the template using CDO somehow?

Any assistance is much appreciated.

[Evertjan.]

CReds wrote on 21 jun 2005 in microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:

.. we must submit reports via a Outlook Template.
This is a good thing overall.

I disagree.

Email should only have pertinent textual content.

All other should be in an attachment.

--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Replace all crosses with dots in my emailaddress)

[CReds]

OK, that really doesn't answer my question.
"Evertjan." <ex**************@interxnl.net> wrote in message
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CReds wrote on 21 jun 2005 in microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:

.. we must submit reports via a Outlook Template.
This is a good thing overall.

I disagree.

Email should only have pertinent textual content.

All other should be in an attachment.

--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Replace all crosses with dots in my emailaddress)

[Evertjan.]

CReds wrote on 21 jun 2005 in microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:

"Evertjan." <ex**************@interxnl.net> wrote in message
news:Xn********************@194.109.133.242...

CReds wrote on 21 jun 2005 in microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:

> .. we must submit reports via a Outlook Template.
> This is a good thing overall.
I disagree.

Email should only have pertinent textual content.

All other should be in an attachment.

[please do not topquote]
OK, that really doesn't answer my question.

Sure, it is a reaction on your statement:
"This is a good thing overall."

--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Replace all crosses with dots in my emailaddress)

[Roland Hall]

"Evertjan." <ex**************@interxnl.net> wrote in message
news:Xn********************@194.109.133.242...
: CReds wrote on 21 jun 2005 in microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:
: > "Evertjan." <ex**************@interxnl.net> wrote in message
: > news:Xn********************@194.109.133.242...
: >> CReds wrote on 21 jun 2005 in microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:
: >> > .. we must submit reports via a Outlook Template.
: >> > This is a good thing overall.
: >>
: >> I disagree.
: >>
: >> Email should only have pertinent textual content.
: >>
: >> All other should be in an attachment.
:
: [please do not topquote]
:
: > OK, that really doesn't answer my question.

You're right, it doesn't. It's in opposition to your statement, "This is a
good thing overall." I'd say, with limited information, it's
undeterminable."

But you did say this also: "Any assistance is much appreciated."

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[Roland Hall]

"CReds" wrote in message news:%2***************@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
: OK, I am little down right now.
: We have spent the better part of six months getting our website programmed
: and tested. We finally went live last week.
:
: This week, we get a e-mail from another department stating we must submit
: reports via a Outlook Template.

From what I've read, the Outlook template is just an input form for
repetatitvely formatted mail. So, this department demanding submission via
an Outlook template is probably based on ignorance or stated incorrectly
here. If they're looking for a specific format, or embedded content, then
it is the result they want, and how it is submitted is irrelevant.

: This is a good thing overall.

Debatable.

: The website
: I have, pretty much asks the same questions as they want, but they want us
: to use the template. Can I incorporate the template using CDO somehow?

Define incorporate. Does your email provide the same information in the
same way? If not, what's missing/different?
If so, get a reasoning WHY they feel the template must be used? Using the
template defines input, not output. Do you use a form for the submission?

<soapbox>Why does every department think they know IT better than the IT
department?</soapbox>

: Any assistance is much appreciated.

Sounds like they want the user to not visit a web page but rather pull up a
template in Outlook. It also sounds like a control[freak] issue. Is this
the accounting department?

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[Evertjan.]

Roland Hall wrote on 21 jun 2005 in
microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:

It also sounds like a control[freak] issue. Is this
the accounting department?

Grin!
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Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
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[Bob Lehmann]

"Roland Hall" <nobody@nowhere> wrote in message
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<soapbox>Why does every department think they know IT better than the IT

department?</soapbox>

1. Because MS's marketing department makes them believe that anybody can do
it.
2. Because they saved an Excel spreadsheet as HTML one time.
3. Because they used the Contacts DB Wizard in Access once, it was good, and
they now consider themselves DBAs.
4. Because their 12-year-old has a website.
5. Because they saw something on a website that was cool, but they don't
remember which site, but it was cool so it must be easy.
6. Because they only have to think up things. They don't actually have to
implement them

Bob Lehmann

[Roland Hall]

"Bob Lehmann" wrote in message news:OF**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
: "Roland Hall" <nobody@nowhere> wrote in message
: news:uS*************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
: >><soapbox>Why does every department think they know IT better than the IT
: department?</soapbox>
:
: 1. Because MS's marketing department makes them believe that anybody can
do
: it.
: 2. Because they saved an Excel spreadsheet as HTML one time.
: 3. Because they used the Contacts DB Wizard in Access once, it was good,
and
: they now consider themselves DBAs.
: 4. Because their 12-year-old has a website.
: 5. Because they saw something on a website that was cool, but they don't
: remember which site, but it was cool so it must be easy.
: 6. Because they only have to think up things. They don't actually have to
: implement them

Muwaahahaha. You know, your comments would be even funnier, if that is
possible, if they weren't so accurate. You hit the nail!
I know I threw a couple plugs in there for the good guys but I really am at
a loss for the reasoning why it must be an Outlook template and I'm pretty
much Outlook template challenged.

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[Ken Jenkins]

thats because Evertjan like to lecture people about things instead of just
helping them
"CReds" <cr***@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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OK, that really doesn't answer my question.
"Evertjan." <ex**************@interxnl.net> wrote in message
news:Xn********************@194.109.133.242...

CReds wrote on 21 jun 2005 in microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:

> .. we must submit reports via a Outlook Template.
> This is a good thing overall.

I disagree.

Email should only have pertinent textual content.

All other should be in an attachment.

--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Replace all crosses with dots in my emailaddress)

[Evertjan.]

Ken Jenkins wrote on 22 jun 2005 in
microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:

"Evertjan." <ex**************@interxnl.net> wrote in message

CReds wrote on 21 jun 2005 in
> .. we must submit reports via a Outlook Template.
> This is a good thing overall.

I disagree.

Email should only have pertinent textual content.

All other should be in an attachment.

"CReds" <cr***@hotmail.com> wrote in message

OK, that really doesn't answer my question.

thats because Evertjan like to lecture people about things instead of
just helping them

Helping someone into the mud, Ken,
just because that is the way he/she says he/she wants to go?

Since the OP poses a statement "This is a good thing overall",
not wanting or expecting any commentary on that is not very reasonable.

Disputing a statement that is felt as incorrect is good usenet behavour.

More reasons for not agreeing with the Outlook Template as a good thing
have already been posted in this thread.

Usenet is about discussion, ususally helpfull, but the direction of the
help is not necessarily in the direction the OP expects.

If the OP does not like that, he/she better finds a paid helpdesk.
--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Replace all crosses with dots in my emailaddress)